Monday, March 04, 2013

Folks asked to evacuate because of land fissures in Sierra Bullones

More large cracks have appeared in the Philippines as well, in the area of Sierra-Bullones, Bohol. See video above for pictures. Geologists have been dispatched to determine exact cause, however, heavy rains have been occurring, and a sink hole is suspected. The area has been evacuated for precautions.

Why Are Giant Sinkholes Appearing All Over? Is Something Happening To The Earth’s Crust?

By Michael, on March 3rd, 2013

Where are all of these giant sinkholes coming from? Of course there have always been sinkholes, but over the past few years it seems like both the severity and the number of giant sinkholes has been increasing dramatically. So exactly why are so many giant sinkholes appearing all over America all of a sudden? Is something happening to the earth’s crust, or is there some other explanation?

The “experts” are blaming this epidemic of sinkholes on things like loose soil, acidic groundwater, new construction, leaky water pipes, coal mines, fracking, long periods of drought followed by rain, and depletion of underground aquifers, but do they really understand what is going on? On Thursday, a 37-year-old man named Jeffrey Bush living near Tampa, Florida died when the earth underneath his home suddenly opened up and swallowed him alive. His brother tried to help him when he heard Jeffrey screaming, but it was too late. The entire bedroom was sucked deep into the earth and the home had to be rapidly abandoned. Now authorities are admitting that he will probably never be found. So is this type of thing really “normal”? It would be one thing if this was just an isolated incident, but the truth is that giant sinkholes have been appearing with increasing frequency all over the planet lately. Could this be an indication that major earth changes are on the way?

Florida has always been an area that has been prone to sinkholes, but the numbers do show that sinkhole damage in the state has increased very rapidly in recent years. According to ABC News, insurance claims related to sinkholes more than doubled between 2006 and 2009…

Hillsborough County, where Seffner is situated, is part of an area in Florida prone to sinkholes, with insurance claims associated with them more than doubling between 2006 and 2009, according to a Florida Senate report.

But that is just Florida, right?

Other parts of the country are not having this kind of a problem, right?

Wrong.

Just check out what has been happening in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania lately. There are dozens of sinkholes that have opened up in Harrisburg, and the city is so broke that it doesn’t have the money to fix all of them.

In fact, at this point there are 41 sinkholes that have been documented in Harrisburg, and many of them are right in the middle of the street…

Pennsylvania’s state capital is suffering from a rash of monster sinkholes, but city officials are too broke to do anything about it.

Loose soil and leaky, century-old underground water pipes are to blame for the municipal nightmare, which came to a head on the New Year’s Eve when a 50-foot sinkhole yawned open along Fourth Street, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The eight-foot deep crater — one of at least 41 in the city — is so large, locals made it a “check-in” site on the social media site Four Square.

Some cheeky residents and the media nicknamed the hole “Super Sinkhole Walter.”

The following map identifies where the known sinkholes are across Harrisburg, PA.

Of course there have been lots of cities throughout U.S. history that have experienced such an epidemic of sinkholes, right?

There is no reason to be alarmed, right?

In a previous article about sinkholes, I talked about a sinkhole that recently formed in Ohio that was the size of four football fields and that was more than 30 feet deep. It caused part of State Route 516 to collapse and authorities were projecting that the road would continue to stay closed for months to come.

But that is “normal”, right? No!

The giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish that made headlines all over the nation last year is now more than 800 feet in diameter. It just continues to grow, and authorities have no idea when it will stop growing.

But this kind of thing happens all the time, right?

Just recently, large sinkholes forced roads to close in New Jersey and in Arizona. Of course those incidents will soon be forgotten because there are more news stories about major sinkholes in the United States almost every single day now. Giant sinkholes have been happening with such regularity that people hardly take notice anymore.

You can see some photos of some of the craziest sinkholes in recent years right here. It would be one thing if giant sinkholes were just appearing in the United States, but unfortunately that is not the case.

For instance, a sinkhole that appeared in the middle of Guatemala City in 2010 was about 30 stories deep.

China has been one of the worst areas of the world for sinkholes over the past several years. In fact, just check out what has been happening in one village in China recently…

Residents in the village of Lianyuan in southern China’s Hunan Province have been treading rather gingerly these last few months. Over 20 sinkholes have opened up in the ground since last September. The cave-ins, which range in size, have seen houses collapse and rivers run dry. And there is never any warning as to where and when the sinkholes occur. According to local authorities, the main reason for the cave-ins is the number of coalmines in the area. It is not clear what steps are being taken to prevent further sinkholes from appearing.

I could go on and on with more examples from all over the globe, but hopefully you are starting to get the point.

Giant holes are opening up all over the earth and swallowing homes, buildings, roads and sometimes even people.

There are cracks appearing in Nantou County in Taiwan. A 20 meter long and 8cm wide crack appeared at an elementary school. There are several cracks in and around the area as well. School teachers at the elementary stated the cracks have been widening for the last two years. Now fears of possible severe landslides may occur if an earthquake hits or there is heavy rains.

People are also worried, as I would be, that their homes may collapse or be washed away in a mudslide. Is this phenomenon just part of the tectonic plates settling? Unsolved Realm

John Boudreaux, director of the Assumption Parish Office of Homeland Security, said roughly 5,000 square feet of land sloughed off into the sinkhole Tuesday morning, and that by the afternoon, the land-loss had grown to an ...

CHAMBERSBURG, PA -- The rear corner of a vacant bank building, 2001 Lincoln Way East, collapsed Wednesday when the ground under it sank. Utility crews were at the scene on Wednesday morning to make sure sewer, ...

What was once an occasional incident has become an alarmingly regular occurrence – from around the world, we're getting reports of sinkholes almost every other day now! The earth continues to shift and crack and in some ...

Despite his brother's efforts to pull him from the rubble, Jeffrey Bush, 36, disappeared into the sinkhole that opened up under his room in a Seffner home, the Tampa Bay Times reported. As of Friday morning, the site had ...

In 2011, a Florida sinkhole gobbled up "a garbage bin, an oak tree, the back wall of the building housing a salon and racks of supplies." A woman in Guatemala City discovered a 3-feet-wide, 40-feet-deep sinkhole beneath ...

Louisiana's state of emergency due to its giant Bayou Corne "sinkhole" is nearing seven months long, but the tremors, migrating methane, and expansion continue in this week's new round of environmental and human ...

Backup Channel...http://www.youtube.com/jcattera2. ***************** !!!!! Warning !!!!! (Please don't read past this point if you don't want to know the real truth why these incidents are on the rise)... Sinkhole Incidents On the ...

BAYOU CORNE — The Assumption Parish sinkhole is a lot like a living, breathing thing. More than 200 days after it mysteriously started swallowing up the swamp, hundreds of residents are still under a mandatory evacuation ...

What is a sinkhole?Far from being just a hole in the ground, a sinkhole is a very special type of phenomenon. Born of the interaction between water and rock, sinkholes appear anywhere rock dissolves easily. Some sinkholes ...

From what I have read, studied and understood … I consider that event associated with this growing sinkhole … are signs that the fault line in that area will soon give-way causing a grand-daddy of all earthquakes … splitting ...

Sinkhole swallowing up front lawn- Florida. WINDERMERE, Florida--. A sinkhole close to 60 feet wide and 10 feet deep is swallowing the front yard of a home in Windermere. Giant sinkhole swallowing up Windermere,Florida ...

The state says data shows the sinkhole is linked to the collapse of a side wall of an underground salt cavern that Houston-based Texas Brine operated. The company extracted brine and piped it to nearby petrochemical ...

1 comment:

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